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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
17
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-4-24
pubmed:abstractText
We have examined a simple chemical reaction in a temperature gradient; 2F <==> F2. A mechanical model was used, based on Stillinger and Weber's 2- and 3-body potentials. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations showed that the chemical reaction is in local thermodynamic as well as in local chemical equilibrium (delta(r)G = 0) in the supercritical fluid, for temperature gradients up to 10(12) K m(-1). The reaction is thus diffusion-controlled. The velocity distributions of both components were everywhere close to being Maxwellian. The peak distributions were shifted slightly up or down from the average velocity of all particles. The shift depended on the magnitude of the temperature gradient. The results support the assumption that the entropy production of the reacting mixture can be written as a product sum of fluxes and forces. The temperature gradient promotes interdiffusion of components in the stationary state, a small reaction rate and an accumulation of the molecule in the cold region and the atom in the hot region.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1463-9076
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2017-27
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Molecular dynamics simulations of a chemical reaction; conditions for local equilibrium in a temperature gradient.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article